Every countable group is the fundamental group of some compact subspace of R^4

DOI10.1017/S0004972715000234MaRDI QIDQ5501758zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Adam J. Przeździecki

Publication date 14 August 2015

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2546

zbMATH Keywords

compactafundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: For every countable group G we construct a compact path connected subspace K of R^4 whose fundamental group is isomorphic to G. Our construction is much simpler than the one found recently by Virk.

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